Tell us .... more .....about this word..... clarification.

It is that thing you do with Butter, right?

I thought it was the thing you had to have done when you had Hard Water?

~Umi

this game needs clarifications, large sections rewritten, and possibly being burned to the ground and salted over. for all that i like in 5th ed, it's amazing how much a little bit of looking at the numbers is making me sour on it at this point. sigh.

edit: the mention of using anchored magics as preparations in 4th lead me to the conditions for contact triggers in 4th in street magic. looks like the triggers are basically anybody, anybody but the mage, and one specific person you've assensed. so there's precedent for being able to handle your own contact preparations. as long as we can figure out what contact means at some point.

Or Magic Fingers.

Which is an aura (of the caster) all its own.

Is it a living aura? If so then you could deliver a healing spell by touching a magic finger spell?

Just pointing out that a spell has an Aura. Personally, I think the rules for alchemy (or whatever we are calling it now) are just dumb.

All game mechanics aside (I'm not even familiar with SR5 yet, let me come back to that...), you reminded me of something

Damn right!
Also, very interesting ideas. Food for thought...


There's also nail guns. If you want to use projectiles that you have a chance of seeing them after hitting, you can go with those. Less volume, more ammo - and they're pointy!
On a side note, I just envisioned several ideas for those (like use of poison) in SR4A, let's see how my GM takes that... The ability to nail doors shut alone is good.
Of course, there are drawbacks considering range in comparison with actual guns.
Oh, and thanks for the idea of the potato gun. This will be awesome

Dart guns with narcojet+spell would be pretty brutal and the dart isn't getting damaged by the gun. Though honestly if arrows, bolts, knives are in there is no reason to crap on guns. It is just a matter of style at that point not balance. And I personally think a revolver loaded with 6 different spells which your smart gun cycles to would be freaking cool, sure 6 different knives that you ready and throw as you want is just as effective, just not as cool IMO.

I'm actually annoyed that the Eichiro Hatamoto II isn't available in SR5 yet. Being a single shot mondo-caliber gun, it would be pretty much perfect for creating a Starwind style Caster.

~Umi

Okay I don't know the reference, Starwind?

100% Agreed. I think they've been tacked on because other games like D&D have characters heavily investing in magical items. But in Shadowrun, there is no fire and forget spell system so you can almost always cast whatever spell you need whenever you want.

Technically, I suppose a more apt term, although even more obscure and confusing, might be Tenrei Style, or Hagone Style, or perhaps even Mount Nantai or Mt. Nyotai Style, depending on which of the "Priests"/"Wizards" made the specific spell gun in question, assuming it was even any of those three at all!



~Umi

Still Obscure... Guess we will have to look it up.

I believe Umi is referencing a space cowboy anime called Outlaw Star. The main character, Gene Starwind, used a gun with magic bullets.